Death Train (Original title)
Date: 05 August 1997 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Tom Roberts
Synopsis: Documentary about the Great Stalin railway and the men who toiled to construct it. An engineering disaster that caused the deaths of more than 60,000 men, it was a vast railway system which was to stretch across the Arctic Circle. The workers were supplied from the Gulag prison system and the survivors reveal how mind and soul froze in the sub-zero environment.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Siberia, Railway engineering
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TV Transmissions
Date: 05 August 1997Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:30Slot duration: 90 minsNetwork - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 08 November 1998Broadcast company: Home Box OfficeCountry: USATransmission time: 19:45-21:45Slot duration: 120 minsCable
Date: 05 August 1997 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Tom Roberts
Synopsis: Documentary about the Great Stalin railway and the men who toiled to construct it. An engineering disaster that caused the deaths of more than 60,000 men, it was a vast railway system which was to stretch across the Arctic Circle. The workers were supplied from the Gulag prison system and the survivors reveal how mind and soul froze in the sub-zero environment.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Siberia, Railway engineering
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 05 August 1997Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:30Slot duration: 90 minsNetwork - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 08 November 1998Broadcast company: Home Box OfficeCountry: USATransmission time: 19:45-21:45Slot duration: 120 minsCable
Credits
(12)
Production Company: October Films, Production Company: Home Box Office, Production Company: Channel Four, Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins, Producer: Tom Roberts, Supervising producer: Nancy Abraham, Photography: Bogdan Dziworksi, Editor: Paul Carlin, Music: Bristol Cathedral Choir, Music: Dan Jones, Sound: Valeri Kazakevich
Cast
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Bernard Hill, Georgii Byenkin, John Baddeley, Boris Stachlkov, Michael Lumsden, Nikolai Mankevitch, ALexander Snorsky, Genaadi Stroganov